Back from the dead

Twelve years. My last post here was April 2014, and I closed it by promising “painstaking detail in the coming months” on what my team was building. Then I wrote exactly zero of those posts. Sorry about that.

A lot has changed — starting with the site itself. When I last hit publish, lostechies.com was running on WordPress. Today it’s a Jekyll static site, hosted on GitHub Pages, and posting means committing a markdown file to lostechies/blog. Which is honestly delightful. No login, no editor, no plugin upgrades. Write, commit, ship.

In that spirit of bringing old things back to life: I also just revived Should, the assertion library I built way back when. It’s been dragged forward into modern .NET and is usable again. More on that in a follow-up post.

The bigger thing on my plate, though, is AI. I’ve been heads-down on agent development and agent frameworks — building them, breaking them, figuring out where the seams are. A few recent threads I’ve been pulling on over on LinkedIn: the economics of AI software delivery, adversarial code reviews run by AI, and why companies forget what they already know. That’s most of what I want to write about going forward.

I’m not going to promise a posting cadence — I learned my lesson in

1. But if you stumbled back here from an old MvcContrib link or a 2012 SignalR post: welcome. The blog isn’t dead. It just needed a git push.